Media Information
Media Support
Reval experts are responsive and available to the media for:
Speaking/Appearances
- Speakers for conferences, seminars, and Webinars
- Interviews for business television and Web sites
- Topical educational speakers
Editorial
- One-on-one interviews
- Expert opinion, either contributed articles, or arranged interviews
- White papers
Topical Commentary
- All aspects of hedge accounting
- FASB and IASB compliance and regulation issues
- Derivative risk management
- Derivative valuation
- Hedging to cover exposures in: interest rates, foreign exchange, commodities (energy, metals, argriculture), credit, etc.
- Credit risk; credit crisis
- Corporate finance
- SEC regulations
- Corporate treasury issues
- CFO and Treasurer best practices
- Technology
- SaaS (Software-as-a-Service)
- Starting a business
Media Profile
Reval provides media support through access to:
Jiro Okochi, CEO and Co-Founder
Reval CEO and Co-founder Jiro Okochi is dedicated to helping companies better manage their use of derivatives. He started Reval in 1999 after holding senior positions in derivative sales at major global banks, including WestLB, Deutsche Bank, DKB Financial Products (now part of Mizuho), and Security Pacific Bank (now part of Bank of America). His vision was to provide corporate end-users with a technology solution to effectively assess, measure, document and account for derivatives. Under his leadership, Reval delivered the first Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution for derivative risk management and hedge accounting. With 23 years experience in finance and technology, Mr. Okochi continues to serve the industry as a thought leader. In 2009, he testified on behalf of corporate end-users for the fair reform of OTC derivatives before the U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee. He is a member of the Global Markets Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission and was named one of the 100 Most Influential People in Finance by Treasury & Risk magazine in 2003 and 2009. He is a published writer and a frequent speaker at domestic and international industry conferences for the Association of Financial Professionals, Association of Corporate Treasurers, International Association of Corporate Treasurers (China), Association of Corporate Treasurers (Singapore) and Acumen, among others, and at events with Deloitte LLP, Ernst & Young LLP and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. Mr. Okochi holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Genetics from the University of California at Berkeley.
Members of Reval's Hedge Accounting Technical Taskforce (HATT)
This elite team represents top talent within Reval across its three core competencies of derivatives, accounting, and technology. Their experience runs deep: Big 4 accounting backgrounds, accounting policy experts at major multinational banks, international chartered accountants, derivatives experts from top-tier investment banks, and treasury management staff from major corporations.
